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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Time to Serve Act of 2024"
+description: "Time to Serve Act of 2024"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 477"
+citation: "Maryland SB 477 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Augustine", "Bailey", "Beidle", "Brooks", "Carozza", "Carter", "Charles", "Corderman", "Elfreth", "Folden", "Gallion", "Gile", "Hershey", "Hester", "Hettleman", "James", "Lam", "M. Washington", "Mautz", "McKay", "President", "Ready", "Rosapepe", "Waldstreicher", "West", "Zucker"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-22"
+last_action: "2024-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/efd778aa-8a2b-45c9-96ed-56b9d8686231"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0477?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "9c9677a0acf21258a91d4728721f77498815670a738436dea060a6536cd28806"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland SB 477 (2024) — Time to Serve Act of 2024
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Time to Serve Act of 2024** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_8_sb0477t.pdf)
+2. **First - Time to Serve Act of 2024** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0477f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Time to Serve Act of 2024** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0477t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **134–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Administration — primary (person)
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+- Bailey — primary (person)
+- Beidle — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+- Carter — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Corderman — primary (person)
+- Elfreth — primary (person)
+- Folden — primary (person)
+- Gallion — primary (person)
+- Gile — primary (person)
+- Hershey — primary (person)
+- Hester — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- James — primary (person)
+- Lam — primary (person)
+- M. Washington — primary (person)
+- Mautz — primary (person)
+- McKay — primary (person)
+- President — primary (person)
+- Ready — primary (person)
+- Rosapepe — primary (person)
+- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+- Zucker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-22** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-24** Reassigned to Finance
+- **2024-01-31** Hearing 2/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-08** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-08** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-14** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-16** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-29** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-29** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/efd778aa-8a2b-45c9-96ed-56b9d8686231`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+